The rear half of an eastbound BNSF intermodal train climbing the grade up Tehachapi Pass at Bealville, California, is made up of exclusively trailer-on-flat-car (TOFC) tonnage as the train snakes ... (more)

A lengthy eastbound BNSF intermodal train climbs the grade up toward Tehachapi Pass at Bealville, California, on February 24, 2016. Leading the train toward the horseshoe curve at Allard is CREX N... (more)

Quite literally snaking its way downgrade, a northbound Union Pacific intermodal train, likely bound for Brooklyn, Oregon, makes its way through Bealville with the head-end closing in on northern ... (more)

An eastbound BNSF intermodal train climbs the grade up toward Tehachapi Pass at Bealville, California, on February 24, 2016. The train is wrapping around the horseshoe curve at the old location of... (more)

A trio of new GE ET44AC locomotives help a southbound Union Pacific manifest freight upgrade through Bealville, California, on the morning of February 26, 2016.

A southbound Union Pacific manifest freight climbs the Tehachapi Pass grade through Bealville, California, on the morning of February 26, 2016. The train is powered by a pair of GE ET44ACs and a p... (more)

Climbing California’s Tehachapi Pass in the beauty of springtime, a pair of new ET44ACs, along with an ES44AC, power a southbound Union Pacific intermodal train out of Tunnel 2 at Bealville on F... (more)

DPUs push the tail end of their BNSF stack train up and around Cliff and into a threatening storm above.

A Southern Pacific freight train, with SP SD45 9090 on the head end, holds the main at Bealville, in California’s Tehachapi Pass, on March 19, 1978. While the westbound waits for its meet with ... (more)

Climbing the warm, parched foothills of Bealville and blasting its way out of tunnel 5 above, in a cloud of smoke, as the south bound UP manifest’s rear DPUs cross the Bealville Road crossing be... (more)

Descending the mountain grade over Tehachapi Pass is a westbound BNSF vehicle train led by GE ES44C4 No. 4258 at Bealville, California, late in the afternoon of February 24, 2016.

A Santa Fe westbound rolls downhill through Bealville behind five EMD SD24s. As is apparent from the scene, Tehachapi Pass is a beautiful place in springtime.

A grain drain descends the grade out of the Tehachapis on a warm summer afternoon.

With the length of its train still snaking through Cliff and Tunnel 5, a northbound UP intermodal train's head-end exists Tunnel 3 as it approaches Bealville in the morning light.